Charity … is kind, it is not easily provok’d, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Charity
The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Injury, Misfortune
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Opportunity
History is the narrative of great actions with praise or blame.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: History
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
—Cotton Mather
Topics: Blame
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